Food prices
Baby food aid requests rose 25% in 2025, infant formula prices climb, Social Bank reports
Data from the National Insurance Institute found that 2.8 million Israelis currently live with food insecurity, including over a million children.
The food Israel wastes each year could feed a country, so why doesn’t it?
Unusual move: The chain selling fresh chicken thighs for less than NIS 8 per kilogram
Cultivated food and advanced tech: How can the world fight food price surges? - opinion
The cost of living continues to rise despite gov't promises - editorial
As the government prepares to pass the budget, it should not forget its pledge to voters before the last election to rein in the cost of living.
Israeli Consumer Price Index rises 0.8%, almost double the forecast
A series of Israeli companies and importers have announced significant price hikes in recent weeks.
Carrefour's Israel launch could spark much-needed market competition
Recent import reforms have paved the way for the international retail giant to potentially revolutionize the Israeli market.
Forget judicial reform – make life in Israel affordable - editorial
The issue occupying Israelis’ minds above all others isn’t the judicial reform, personal safety or even Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons.
Milk prices rise by 9.28%, increase to double over the next three years
Smotrich proud of cutting the price hike in half, neglects to mention that the other half will eventually come into effect, per his deal with dairy manufacturers.
Smotrich’s last-second push to curb Israeli dairy price hike breaks industry agreement
The move may lead to a shortage of certain dairy staples in Israel as the Jewish holiday of Shavuot approaches.
Smotrich blames former gov’t for upcoming 3% rise in milk prices
In explanation of the price rise, the Agriculture Ministry has highlighted the war in Ukraine as a primary cause.
Pakistan posts highest-ever annual inflation, stampedes for food kill 16
The inflation number was the highest ever year-on-year increase recorded by the statistics bureau since monthly records began in the 1970s.
Israelis expected to waste one quarter of all food bought for Passover
According to a recent study conducted by Leket Israel, a total of 250,000 tons of food, valued at NIS 1.9b, is expected to go unused during Passover.
Meat shortages in Israel: Passover's around the corner, but the meat isn't
People in Israel should expect to see shortages of beef and chicken this holiday season as well as rising food prices.
